Recent Recipes

We are trying to empty the meat from Hamsley's freezer before the move. This weekend he pulled out 1kg of turkey mince for me to cook with. I'd never used turkey mince before, but Hamsley suggested a turkey pasta as his housemate had a recipe for it in the kitchen. I went to check it out and discovered it came from the Ingham Turkey's website, which had a range of great recipes to try.

When browning the mince, I found the smell to be rather weird. But after seasoning the sauce with added tomato paste and sugar, which the original recipe did not call for; I found the turkey mince added a fantastic flavour that you wouldn't get with just beef mince.
About to attempt turkey sausage rolls. Stay tuned for more turkey!

Turkey Spaghetti Bolognaise

1 tablespoon oil

1 onion, diced

1 garlic clove, crushed

1 tablespoon oil, extra

500g turkey mince

425g can diced tomatoes

200g tomato puree

1 tablespoon fresh basil, chopped

Salt, pepper and sugar, to taste

2 tablespoons tomato paste

Hot spaghetti, to serve

1. Heat oil in pan over low heat, cook onion and garlic until transparent. Remove from pan. Add extra oil to pan over high heat and cook turkey mince in batches until browned. Return onion and garlic to pan with all the mince.

Interesting!! A workmate recently made turkey burgers - using lots of spices and herbs like coriander etc..he said they were pretty good. I think the recipe came from a recent Men's Health magazine :-D

I was just saying the other day that I want to make a spag bol using turkey mince, as I haven't eaten spag bol for so many years following my move to nonbeefland. It's such a great dish to make heaps of and keep portions in the freezer for lazy nights, or to use in other dishes. Cheers for testing out this recipe! Looks great!